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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Tokopedia, Indonesia’s largest e-commerce platform, said it was investigating a hacking attempt and claims that details of millions of its users had been leaked online.
“We discovered that there was an attempt to steal data from Tokopedia users,” a company spokesman said in a statement Saturday night.
“However, Tokopedia ensures that crucial information, such as passwords, remains successfully protected behind encryption.”
“At this time, we continue to investigate further on this matter and there is no additional information that we can share,” the statement added.
Data breach monitoring firm Under the Breach published a Twitter post on Saturday showing screenshots of an unidentified person who claimed to have acquired the personal data of 15 million Tokopedia users during a March 2020 attack on the e-commerce site.
According to the screenshots, which show names, emails, and birthdays, the hacker alleges that he owns a much larger user database and requests assistance in “decrypting” user passwords.
Under the Breach, which monitors cybercrime, said Sunday that the hacker had updated the post to offer the details of 91 million users for “$ 5,000 on Darknet.” The company shared a screenshot of the hacker’s proposed offer posted online.
Backed by $ 2 billion in investor funds, including Vision Fund from SoftBank Group Corp and Alibaba, Tokopedia, whose founder and CEO William Tanuwijaya is one of the country’s leading tech entrepreneurs, claims more than 90 million monthly active users.
Tokopedia did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the hacker’s new claims. A spokesman for the firm declined to comment Saturday on the original screenshots.
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